October 2026 series: Transportation & the Comprehensive Plan You know the moment. You’ve been driving a state highway for twenty minutes through open farmland—center pivots, a grain elevator on the horizon, a pickup or two coming the other way—when a green sign tells you you’ve arrived: Welcome to …, followed by a population figure, maybe […]
Fuel Prices Move Fast—Transportation Systems Do Not
October 2026 series: Transportation & the Comprehensive Plan Every few years, the price at the pump becomes the loudest number in town. People talk about it at the diner, the school board hears about bus budgets, and the county road department recalculates what a season of grading and plowing will cost. Usually the spike passes. […]